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February 3, 2024

NEWS: EV Jobs Coming to Tennessee… a Republican Base State!

The factory in the picture is a new EV fast charger plant just opened in deep red Tennessee by Tritium, an Australian company that closed its factory in Australia to build a much larger plant in the U.S. (It’s located in Lebanon, Tennessee to be exact, near the old…

February 3, 2024

EV Republicans! Get Visible!

I’ve been very happy to see so many positive comments to what we are doing with the EV Politics Project from Republicans who are happy and proud to own EVs! (Tom and I discuss a lot about that in the State of Charge interview on our home page: if you…

February 3, 2024

Chicago: Site of an EV Charging Mess for Sure, but Illinois is a Leader in Fixing a Far Bigger EV Charging Problem

I linked to few items in my last blog post about the Chicago EV world’s equivalent of Napoleon’s retreat from Moscow in an earlier post. EV advocates were quick to push back with solid data — from EV Zanadu Norway where electric cars are in the majority — that…

February 3, 2024

Update: Murphy on the Automotive News pod!

Check out Mike’s interview on Automotive News’ terrific Daily Drive podcast about how political polarization is putting a chill on the EV market in the U.S. and what Mike thinks auto company leaders should do about it here.

February 3, 2024

Chat GPI and the 1 Car Sale

Saw a fun item in the news where a Chevy dealer in Watsonville, California using an AI system to engage customers got the surprise of a lifetime when a canny hacker/consumer talked the AI into selling him a new 2024 Chevy Tahoe for… one dollar! I’m sure it was…

February 3, 2024

Election Day in NH, EV Style

Wearing my pundit hat I took a quick trip to New Hampshire last weekend to bounce around Tuesday’s big Republican primary. As an old political hand and veteran of many N.H. primaries, my trip was a mix of nostalgic tourism, a chance to visit old political friends and a handy…

February 3, 2024

EV-Related Jobs Soaring

A quick and shameless but well earned plug: Ed Moltzen’s The Buildout blog on Substack is a must read for tons of great info about the EV infrastructure buildout in the U.S. Subscribe! I do. Here is a recent piece by Ed on regarding a new study from the International…

February 1, 2024

Talking EV Issues in California

Mike did a fun interview about EV issues on Inside the Issues with Amrit Singh.

February 1, 2024

How Carmakers Can Better Understand the Red State EV Buyer

A happy day for Mike as he got to join Jamie Butters on one of his favorite podcasts: the Automotive News’ Daily Drive.

January 18, 2024

Frozen Chicago…

Lots of news this week about bad Tesla charging troubles in cold, snowy Chicago. This is one of things where the EV bashing hits epic levels. And it is a fact that EV batteries do worse in cold weather. But what are the actual facts? What really happened in the…

January 13, 2024

Donkeys, Elephants and EVs

It is no surprise that our politics have become tribal and deeply polarized. The EV Politics Project was created to better understand the deep partisan division over, of all things, electric vehicles. But that divide does exist and it is wide and growing. The EVPolitics Project recently conducted a national…

January 12, 2024

State of Charge Podcast

Our founder, Mike Murphy, recently did an interview on the State of Charge YouTube channel with leading EV Journalist Tom Moloughney. Tune in for yourself to learn all about our organization’s mission and what we have learned from our national polling about the big divide between Republicans and Democrats…